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A version of this archives appears in print on July 2, 1915, on Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: BRITISH DESTROYER DAMAGED BUT SAVED; The Lightning May Have Been Torpedoed -- Fourteen of Crew Missing. . Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe